The Real CSI

Tuesday April 10th: 5:30 - 6:30, MH520Sgt. Bruce Wiley- Office of the District Attorney- Criminal Investigator at County
of Santa Clara.

Alex Calder

Alex Calder, a Bio-Pharma Specialist- Proteomics Technologies, at Bio-Rad Laboratories
will be delivering a presentation on Career Science 101: How to get a job. This will be part of the FS 169 Senior Seminar Course on Wednesday, March 19th from
5:00 - 5:45pm, Room SH 413.

About the SpeakerDr. Cristián Orrego is currently the Director of Forensic Projects at the Human Rights
Center (HRC) at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He was an Assistant
Laboratory Director and Supervisor at the California Department of Justice, Jan Bashinski
DNA Laboratory in Richmond, California, from 1999 to 2011. He was appointed Science
Advisor to the Presidential Commission on Policies for Human Rights of the Government
of Chile in May 2006, and subsequently member of an International Commission of Experts
for the Legal Medical Service, Ministry of Justice, Government of Chile, from May
2007 – February 2010. He is a founding member of the volunteer organization, the Alliance
of Forensic Scientists for Human Rights and Humanitarian Investigations. As such,
he works closely with the El Salvador DNA Reunification Project in support of the
Pro Búsqueda Association of Missing Children of El Salvador, a collaboration between
the Human Rights Center, University of California at Berkeley and Pro Búsqueda. Cristián
Orrego is also a member of the Advisory Board, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley.

Gloria Nusse

About the SpeakerGloria received her B.F.A. from Witchita State University and a M.A. in Biology from
San Francisco State University. She is a scientific and forensic artist who has worked
for well known scientific, cultural and historical agencies. Her forensic artwork
has aided with the identification of several individuals and has been widely featured
on television and in print media. She currently teaches at SFSU.

Mark Bennett

About the SpeakerMark graduated from University of London in 1989 with a Masters Degree in Forensic
Science. He worked for the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory in London,
where he trained as a firearms examiner in the “Gun Room” firearms unit. He has worked
as a firearms examiner for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and is currently
the Supervising Criminalist in firearms at the Oakland Police Department Crime Laboratory.
He is a member of the Association of Firearms and Toolmark Examiners and the California
Association of Criminalists. He has worked on many hundreds of murder cases including
the murder of police Sergeant Dale Green in Tallahassee Florida, the “Black Muslim
Bakery” murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey and the March 21st 2009 murders of four
Oakland Police Officers.

DescriptionDr. George Carmody from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada will deliver a seminar
hosted by SJSU at the Santa Clara County Crime Laboratory on the basic principles
of statistics and probability relevant to key concepts in population genetics and
profile frequency estimates of PCR-based/discrete allele systems. Among the topics
will be approaches to statistical analysis of STR typing as is routinely performed
in casework and data bank profiling. Time permitting, additional topics will include
discussions on parentage testing, kinship and mass disaster victim identification.
This seminar is intended for criminalists involved in the analysis of biological evidence
as well as students and others interested in understanding the underpinnings of forensic
DNA statistics.

About the SpeakerDr. Carmody’s research interests include genetic variation of DNA and proteins, with
respect to population differentiation, molecular evolution, and speciation; statistical
and computer methods for determining genetic identity, kinship and the measurement
of genetic subdivision of human populations using microsatellite (STR) loci. He is
a member of Genetics Society of America, the Statistical Society of Ottawa, is Vice-Chair
for the R.C.M.P. National DNA Databank Advisory Committee, is on the N.I.J. WTC Kinship
and Data Analysis Planning Panel (‘KADAP’), the New York State DNA Subcommittee, Commission
on Forensic Science, and is part of the Katrina Victim DNA Identification Expert Group,
among others. Dr. Carmody’s work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Science
and Science to name a few. Dr. Carmody gives statistics-based lectures throughout
the United States and Canada and is often requested to testify in court. Dr. Carmody
received both his A.B. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Zoology from Columbia University.
He did a post-doc at the University of Chicago in Genetics and has been a Senior Fellow
in Genetics at University of Nottingham, and a Visiting Researcher or Professor at
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Hawaii and University
of Texas Houston.